This study examined physiological and psychological changes in one solo truck driver and both drivers in a two-up truck crew during several 5-6 day round-trips to the north west of Western Australia. Endocrine catecholamine levels, cardiac sinus arrhythmia and serial reaction performance all showed progressive changes over the journey. The solo driver showed greater changes on most measures tha...

Unassisted hand surgery is being undertaken by necessity for both elective and emergency cases, due to hospital resource restrictions. The authors outline the principles of local anesthesia, surgeon-controlled tourniquet techniques, and a number of new instruments which allow a surgeon to work in comfort and safety, unassisted. The traditional surgical instruments designed for the days when tra...

The identity of musical instruments is reflected in the acoustic attributes of musical notes played with them. Recently, it has been argued that these characteristics of musical identity (or timbre) can be best captured through an analysis that encompasses both time and frequency domains; with a focus on the modulations or changes in the signal in the spectrotemporal space. This representation ...

Southern blight ( ) of soybean ( ) is an important disease throughout the world. Some soil amendments can reduce disease levels by improving soil microbial activity. The main goals of this study were to investigate the effects of soil amendments such as dried powders of kudzu ( ), velvetbean ( ), and pine bark ( ), on soil microbial population and disease caused by on soybean. Pine bark, velvet...

OBJECTIVE This paper evaluates Avahan programme's coverage of female sex workers (FSWs), focus on high-risk FSWs and intermediate outcomes. METHODS First round of cross-sectional survey data, Integrated Behavioral and Biological Assessments (IBBA), conducted in 22 districts, were aggregated into district categories: Solo, where Avahan was the sole service provider covering all FSWs and Major ...

BACKGROUND Dupilumab, a human monoclonal antibody against interleukin-4 receptor alpha, inhibits signaling of interleukin-4 and interleukin-13, type 2 cytokines that may be important drivers of atopic or allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis. METHODS In two randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials of identical design (SOLO 1 and SOLO 2), we enrolled adults with moderate-to-severe ...

OBJECTIVE To compare patient perceptions of service quality at solo and group practices, and to examine the association of perceptions with 'potential patient loyalty' (PPL), the potential for seeking future service from the same clinic. DESIGN A self-administered, cross-sectional survey of clinic outpatients, using an adapted SERVQUAL questionnaire translated into Chinese, with additional it...

This study explored potential changes in vibrato among female undergraduate singers (N = 30) majoring in voice performance (n = 15) and choral music education (n = 15) as they transitioned between solo and choral singing modes. Participants sang the same contrasting excerpts (N = 2) from standard choral literature. Each of these singing contexts included a soprano solo and a fourpart choral har...

Cohesion between sister chromatids is mediated by cohesin and is essential for proper meiotic segregation of both sister chromatids and homologs. solo encodes a Drosophila meiosis-specific cohesion protein with no apparent sequence homology to cohesins that is required in male meiosis for centromere cohesion, proper orientation of sister centromeres and centromere enrichment of the cohesin subu...